Film Review: MULAN (2020 film) - Victim of Cancel Culture & US-CHINA Cold War 影評 《花木蘭》
This film MULAN 花木蘭is still the most advanced phase of Chinese martial arts film genre no matter how many historical inaccuracies we found.
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Ryota Nakanishi
Jul 12, 202021 min read
Film Review: A Fugitive From The Past (Japan, 1965) - 影評《飢餓海峽》Historical Meaning of 'Hunger Strait'
''Any kind of social discrimination is to justify inequalities in class societies.''
A Fugitive from the Past (1965) embodies it.
Ryota Nakanishi
May 15, 202012 min read
Film Review: Tora-san, Wish You Were Here! (2019) - 影評《男人之苦 - 寅次郎返嚟啦!》
Dir. Yoji Yamada is undoubtedly the most qualified successor of Dir. Yasujiro Ozu for both Shochiku and the entire Japanese film history.
Ryota Nakanishi
Apr 21, 20209 min read
Film Review : The Nurse with the Purple Hair (2017) Focusing on Film Death and Real Death
Sean S. Cunningham defines so called 'unfinished business' and how to help dying people to get it done before their death.
Ryota Nakanishi
Apr 3, 202018 min read
Film Review : The Crazies (1973) George A. Romero and Alternative Genre Filmmaking to Hollywood
There is no simple Hollywood dualism
in Romero's THE CRAZIES (1973). Really an alternative to Hollywood traditional narrative structure.
Ryota Nakanishi
Feb 28, 202010 min read
Film Review: Leviathan (1989) 烈血海底城 - Underrated Sci-fi Horror Master Piece by George P. Cosmatos
Leviathan (1989) is not a spiteful anti Soviet propaganda effort of Hollywood. The entire crew of LEVIATHAN is a victim, too.
Ryota Nakanishi
Jan 26, 20204 min read
Film Review: Enter The Fat Dragon (2020) 影評《肥龍過江》
This is not a remake of the most important Hong Kong film master Sammo Hung's ''Enter The Fat Dragon'' (1978).
Ryota Nakanishi
Jul 29, 20194 min read
Film Review: From the Queen to the Chief Executive (2001) An Alternative to Kung fu Films
From the Queen to the Chief Executive (Dir. Herman Yau Lai To; 2001) is Herman Yau's best film because it touched the real political issue.
Ryota Nakanishi
Jul 19, 20196 min read
Film Review: Enter the Fat Dragon (1978)
Sammo Hung (1952-) is the legendary martial arts star and his huge contributions to Hong Kong and entire Chinese film culture are enormous.
Ryota Nakanishi
Jul 1, 20197 min read
Film Review: High Anxiety (1977)
This film always referred as a homage and satire to Hitchcock films however it is quite independently satisfiable as a suspense comedy.
Ryota Nakanishi
Jun 28, 20198 min read
Film Review: The Black Cat (1981) - Lucio Fulci's Film Editing Analysis #1
Reality for art is core of his aesthetics, thus it is ridiculous to separate art and genre efforts.
Ryota Nakanishi
Jun 23, 20193 min read
Film Review: The Steamroller and the Violin (1960)
This student film is a master piece! All film students must see this Soviet film.
Ryota Nakanishi
Jun 11, 20194 min read
Film Review: Friday the 13th. Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) The Best of the Franchise
Dir. Tom McLoughlin as a comedy director actually added the humorous essence to this best Jason film.
Ryota Nakanishi
May 3, 20193 min read
Film Review: Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
The US filmmakers approach to the Godzilla in Godzilla (2014) and other Hollywood films are appropriate in terms of the Japanese culture.
Ryota Nakanishi
Apr 19, 20193 min read
Film Review: The Curse of La Llorona (2019) - Full of Jump Scares...The Curse of The Nun
The Mexican folklore is not an exception from his ambitious imperialist list for Conjuring Universe.
Ryota Nakanishi
Apr 7, 20192 min read
Film Review: Pet Sematary (2019) - It Should be Buried in the Pet Cemetery
Pet Semetery (2019) should be focused on psychological aspect of the main characters.
Ryota Nakanishi
Apr 5, 20194 min read
Film Review: P Storm (2019) - P for Prison
Maybe cinematic comparison with Project A (1983) is effective for explaining seriousness of P Storm (2019).
Ryota Nakanishi
Apr 3, 20198 min read
Film Review: Encounters of the Spooky Kind (1980) 鬼打鬼 - The Born of Martial Arts Comedy Horror Film
How he came up with the idea of jiang shi? That is tradition of Chinese culture. Jiang shi is not just a hopping dead.
Ryota Nakanishi
Mar 29, 20199 min read
Film Review: The Valiant Ones (1975) 影評《忠烈圖》- The Best King Hu Wuxia Film and His Creative Meme
Like John Woo, He learned his film editing and constructing from Sergei Eisenstein mainly at Hong Kong film library.
Ryota Nakanishi
Jan 11, 20193 min read
Film Review: Dearest Anita (2019) - Really touching both Anita Mui fans and non-fans
It does not intend to 'consume' Mui but it is mainly dedicated to the idealistic image of Mui and her close loyal fans.
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